gCaptain is reporting that an American Burke class destroyer, USS Porter (DDG-78), was damaged in a collision with a Panamanian flagged, Japanese owned oil tanker, in the Straits of Hormuz. gCaptain has more photos. There were no reports of injury. 
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Well, there will be a new CO position opening up soon.
It looks like the current and soon to be ex-CO will be making plans to retire out.
This is not so bad. In the mid-1960s during a Sixth Fleet carrier group exercise, a small Sicilian freighter penetrated the entire destroyer and submarine screen to smack the USS Roosevelt on the starboard side.
Technology isn’t everything. I thought that a modified Condition 1 steaming was required when moving through the Strait of Hormuz?
As Informationdissemination pointed out. That the ship survived a collision with a loaded 300,000 ton tanker is a testament to the toughness of the ship.
Indeed it is. That said, there will soon be a new CO reporting aboard.
Indeed and the US Navy will sure be looking at all the potential XO’s who want the job as CO of a destroyer. Maybe all the potential CO’s should be given an on the Road driving test
Nicky,
These officers are well trained. But with big ships sometimes the decisions made before they are really close cause the accident. And in the real world you don’t get a redo.
Here’s the question, after a collision, dose the US Navy administer a standard DOT Drug and Alcohol after an accident